Improvement in horseshoes



I. PEAOOGK. HORSESHOB.

No. 88,451. Patented May 5,1863.

ISAAC PEACOOK, or SHORTSVILLE, new YORK.

IMPROVEMENT m HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,451,- dated May 5, 1863.

To all whom it may concern-.-

Beit known that I, IsAAc Peacock, of

Shortsville, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Horseshoe; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which l Figure 1 shows the improved shoe inverted and-nailed to the foot of a horse. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the improved shoe. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the shoe, taken at the point indicated by the red ne a; x in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the three figures.

This invention relates to the improved shoe the form of which I manufacture with the machine for which Letters Patent were granted to me hearing date the 20th day of January, 1863.

The nature of my invention consists in mak ing a very strong and durable horseshoe, which possesses comparatively little weight and which will give a firm and substantial support and bearing to the hoof and a better support to the horse than the tripple-calked shoes, by constructing the shoe with a continuous calk or rim extending unbroken from heel to heel, and making this calk at or nearly at right angles to the sole-plate, and also combining with this arrangement an inner ridge for strengthening and stiffening the inner edge of the soleplate and giving afirm support to the hoof at this. point, all as will be hereinafter described.

,To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my'invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

This invention is intended more especially forIcavalry-horses, to make them sure-footed, to give their feet a better anchorage or hold,

and to protect their hoofs from injury in many ways, but more particularly by preventing the heads of the shoe-nails from striking stones or other solid substances and irritating the quick or sensitive part of the hoof; also, to support the hoof more firmly, both at its outer-edge and near the'frog, so that the horse will not be liable to sprains or bruises of the feet. To this end I construct a shoe by means of machinery and otherwise, as described in my patent aforesaid, the sole of which consists of a thin plate, the upper surface of which is fiat, as shown at a, Fig. 2, terminating around its inner edge in a curved depression, I). This surface conforms to the curvature and fiat surface of the sole of the hoof surrounding the frog, and gives a firm tread anda good support to the heel, sides, and toe of thefoot. The calk or outer ridge, d, projects down some distance below the lower flat surface, a, of the sole-plate and inclines outward, forming a continuation of the outer surface of the horny plane parallel with the surface of the soleplate, and this ridge extends from heel to heel around the shoe in an unbroken line, terminating only at the heel of the shoe in the contracted curves. (Shown in Figs. 1 and '2 of the drawings.) The ridged may be made flat on its bottom surface, or this edge may be sharpened for preventing the horse from slipping in frosty weather; but whether it be sharpened or'not, it will be seen that the contracted curves at the heel of the shoe will give the shoe a suflicient hold or anchorage to prevent the horse from slipping under all ordinary circumstances. The inner edge, e, of the shoe is strengthened by forming on its lower surface a ridge, e,,which is produced in the manufacture of the shoe by upsetting themetal in forming the depression I) and the flat bottom surface of the sole-plate. This ridge 6 projects only so far below the surface of the sole-plate as it is found necessary to stiffen the inner edge of this plate, andbetween this ridge 6 and the calk d the perforations are made tov receivethe shoe-nails ggg. (Shown in Fig. 1.) It is not necessary to groove the bottom of the sole-plate farther than, I have above described, as the ridge 0 and the calk d will protect the nail-heads from contact with stones and other hard substances.

Now, it will be seen fromthe above description that the shoe is inade very light and strengthened by the ribs d and e, the former giving an increased tread to the foot, while case. The bottom edge of this ridge d is in a v 2. In combination with the improvement embraced in the first claim above, the peculiar manner of curving the shoe at the heel, as shown and described, forthepurposesetforth.

ISAAC PEAOOOK. Witnesses.

EZRA PIERCE, WILLIAM BARLOW. 

